Roc: A Free, Web-Based Music Creator

If you're looking for music-creation software or an easy-to-use music-generation app to play with, Roc is a free, Web-based music app from the creators of Aviary, a free Web-based image editor. Roc is designed for musicians and other audiophiles who enjoy playing around with beats and rhythm in an application, but don't have the budget to go out and buy an expensive recording or music creation app.

When you open Roc, you have the option to start a new music project or to see a sample project so you can get a feel for how the app works. Once you've given it a try with the sample project, you'll start using it on your own fairly quickly. The app allows you to select different instruments including acoustic drums, jazz drums, a sitar, wood flutes, even a hammered dulcimer, and add individual sounds that those instruments create to your music project at different points in time.

As you add instruments and sounds to your timeline, you can click any individual instrument track to play it back on its own, or click to play the entire project back, including all of the instruments, in time with one another. Making changes is as simple as clicking a space in the timeline to add the sound, and clicking again to remove it.

At the top of the music editor, you can select the number of beats per measure in your project, and change the editing mode to suit the type of music you want to create. You can also adjust the track volume directly from the editor. This is important because Roc will suggest that you save your project frequently so you don't lose your work.

You'll have to sign up for an account (completely free) to save your projects, but once you do you can save them and download them. The real beauty of Roc is that it's free, richly featured, and best of all it is Web-based, so you don't have to download additional software to use it.

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